Joint NASA/NSF Workshop on

AUTONOMOUS CONSTRUCTION AND MANUFACTURING FOR SPACE ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS

 

Workshop Presentations

 

4-0:  Paul Werbos, The National Science Foundation

                        The Charge to the Workshop

 

4-1:  John Mankins, NASA Headquarters

                         Space Solar Power: History, Promise and Status

 

4-2:  William “Red” Whittaker, Carnegie-Mellon University

             Robotics for Space Macrofacilities

 

4-3:  Ivan Bekey, Bekey Designs, Inc.

                        Technology Challenges for Space Solar Power Delivery Systems

 

4-4:  Pradeep Khosla, Carnegie-Mellon University

                        Distributed Intelligent Learning Systems

 

4-5:  George Bekey, University of Southern California

                        Cooperative Work by Multiple Robots

 

4-6:  Neville Marzwell, NASA/ Jet Propulsion Laboratories

Technology Challenges for Space Solar Power

 

4-7:  David Criswell, University of Houston,

                        Lunar Solar Power Systems

 

4-8:  Alex Ingatiev et al:

Production of Solar Cells on the Surface of the Moon from Lunar Regolith

 

4-9: George Friedman, Univ. of Southern California & Space Studies Institute

                        Self-Replication Technology for the Space Solar Power Mission

 

Additional material

 

 William “Red” Whittaker, Carnegie-Mellon University

Skyworker poster

 

Chris Leger, Carnegie-Mellon University

Darwin 2K